Southeastern Branch Student Display Awards are given to the M.S. and Ph.D. students who present the best research papers in a display format at the annual Branch meeting. The award is based on both presentation of the display and a written summary. Recipients of the ESA-SEB Outstanding Student Display Presentation Awards each receive $100 cash and a plaque. The awards are presented at the ESA-SEB annual meeting Awards Luncheon and the recipients are encouraged to be present to receive the award.
Eligibility
Submissions
Evaluation Criteria
Evaluation Procedures
Previous Winners
Eligibility
The nominee must be a current ESA-SEB student member pursuing an M.S. or Ph.D. degree in entomology. Application for ESA student membership must have been made prior to January 1 of the year the award is granted. The student must not have graduated more than one year prior to presentation of the award at the annual Branch meeting. An active ESA member returning for graduate study is not eligible. The paper submitted for consideration may not have been submitted for publication in a journal prior to the deadline for submission of the presentation summary.
Submissions
The competition is announced annually during the call for submissions and every eligible student may submit a paper. There is no limit to the number of students who can be from the same institution. A student may enter only one competition each year. Materials for consideration are sent to the ESA-SEB Student Awards Committee Chair.
Evaluation Criteria
View the scoring criteria, along with helpful tips for competitors on the Southeastern Branch Student Poster Competition Information website.
Evaluation Procedures
Chair works with the judges at the ESA-SEB annual meeting to determine awardees for the Outstanding M.S. and Ph.D. Student Display Presentations. Judges evaluate individually student performance and each submits a ranked list of students and associated evaluations to the Student Awards Committee Chair. If there is no clear awardee for an award, the two top-ranked students, as averaged from the Committee member lists, are reevaluated. Chair determines the awardees and presents the awards at the ESA-SEB annual meeting.
Previous Winners
View the list of those who have previously received this award.